Beyond Hoaxes: Scientific Evidence of Social Impact for the Prevention of Gender Based Violence at Universities

Higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide have created important tools to report and prevent gender-based violence (GBV). HEIs are already developing training for their academic community. In designing these training courses, it is important to identify evidence and hoaxes or at least make it clear if there is or not enough evidence to support one action. This is the case of the training programme conducted at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2022. From there, Dr Olga Serradell Pumareda is working to identify actions which are successfully preventing GBV at the university.

In this seminar we will show a way to contribute to co-creation of scientific knowledge with social impact through the SAPPHO platform as a technique. We promote the public debate of the scientific evidence identified in the literature review on the SAPPHO open-access knowledge gender platform. Posts are written on the platform to enable dialogue with citizenry worldwide, especially with different agents involved in HEIs (students, academic and non-academic staff, victims and survivors).

We will learn how the scientific community and citizens can dialogue and report scientific evidence, create new knowledge on the social impact achieved by actions that are overcoming GBV and Isolating Gender Violence, giving the possibility to recreate them in other contexts, including HEIs.

This event is organised by Social Work at the University of Edinburgh, and co-badged with GENDER.ED.

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Please note that this event may be recorded. The recording will be used for internal University of Edinburgh teaching purposes only.